Accessibility Statement

Our Commitment to Accessibility

At SceneScout Locations, we recognize the importance of making our website accessible to all users, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to provide an inclusive online experience that allows everyone to easily access and navigate our content. This commitment is deeply embedded in our organizational values and guides our website development and maintenance efforts.

We are dedicated to ensuring that our website conforms to accessibility standards, making it more user-friendly for people with visual, auditory, cognitive, and motor impairments. We understand that accessibility is an ongoing process, and we are committed to regularly reviewing and updating our website to maintain and improve accessibility for all users.

Measures to Support Accessibility

SceneScout Locations takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of our website:

• Ongoing Accessibility Training: We provide ongoing accessibility training for our web development and content creation teams to ensure they are knowledgeable about the latest accessibility standards and best practices.
• Regular Audits: We conduct regular audits of our website using both automated tools and manual testing methods to identify and address any accessibility issues.
• Accessible Design: We incorporate accessibility considerations into our website design process from the outset, ensuring that all new features and content are designed with accessibility in mind.
• Assistive Technology Compatibility: We design our website to be compatible with assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, and voice recognition software.
• Clear and Simple Language: We use clear and simple language throughout our website to ensure that content is easy to understand for all users.
• Keyboard Navigation: Our website is designed to be fully navigable using a keyboard, allowing users who cannot use a mouse to easily access all content and functionality.

Our accessibility efforts include:

• Providing alternative text for all images and non-text content.
• Ensuring sufficient color contrast between text and background.
• Using clear and consistent navigation.
• Making sure forms are accessible and easy to use.
• Providing captions and transcripts for multimedia content.
• Ensuring the website is responsive and adapts to different screen sizes.

Accessibility Guidelines

SceneScout Locations strives to conform to the following accessibility guidelines:

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): Our website aims to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA, which covers a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible. Compliance with these guidelines helps ensure that our website is accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities.
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA): We use ARIA attributes to provide additional information about the roles, states, and properties of user interface elements, making it easier for assistive technologies to interpret and interact with our website.
• Section 508 Standards: We also take into consideration the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which mandates that electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the federal government be accessible to people with disabilities.

The WCAG guidelines are organized under four main principles, which state that content must be:

• Perceivable: Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive. This includes providing text alternatives for non-text content, providing captions for videos, and ensuring sufficient color contrast.
• Operable: User interface components and navigation must be operable. This includes making sure that all functionality is available from a keyboard, providing sufficient time for users to complete tasks, and avoiding content that causes seizures.
• Understandable: Information and the operation of the user interface must be understandable. This includes using clear and simple language, providing error messages that are easy to understand, and making sure that the website behaves in predictable ways.
• Robust: Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. This includes using valid HTML and CSS, and following accessibility best practices.

We are committed to following these guidelines to provide a website that is accessible to all users.

To further enhance accessibility, we incorporate several best practices:

• Semantic HTML: Using appropriate HTML5 tags for structure and meaning.
• ARIA Roles: Implementing ARIA roles to define the function of interactive elements.
• Form Labels: Clearly associating labels with form fields.
• Skip Navigation: Providing a skip navigation link for screen reader users.
• Focus Indicators: Ensuring visible focus indicators for keyboard navigation.

Feedback and Contact Information

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of SceneScout Locations. If you encounter any accessibility barriers or have suggestions for improvement, please contact us:

• Email: accessibility@scenescoutlocations.com
• Phone: (323) 555-2020
• Address: Accessibility Department, SceneScout Locations, 123 Film Street, Suite 456, Hollywood, CA 90028

We try to respond to feedback within 5 business days. Your input will help us make improvements to ensure that our website is accessible to everyone.

Accessibility Officer:

Name: Eleanor Vance

Title: Head of User Experience

Email: eleanor.vance@scenescoutlocations.com

Eleanor is responsible for overseeing the implementation and maintenance of our accessibility policies and practices. She is available to answer any questions or concerns you may have about the accessibility of our website.

Future Accessibility Efforts

SceneScout Locations is committed to ongoing efforts to improve the accessibility of our website. Some of our future accessibility efforts include:

• Conducting user testing with individuals with disabilities to gather feedback on the usability of our website.
• Implementing automated accessibility testing tools to continuously monitor our website for accessibility issues.
• Developing and implementing an accessibility training program for all employees.
• Working with third-party vendors to ensure that their products and services are accessible to people with disabilities.